Red Hat Enterprise Linux Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 69 90
Rank change year-on-year -33 +21 -22
Contract jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.42% 1.23% 0.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.38% 9.03% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile £325 - £313
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% -46.15%
75th Percentile £586 £750 £483
90th Percentile £605 - £531
North West median daily rate £550 £550 £495
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -20.80%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

Red Hat Enterprise Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 137 144 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 9.51% 13.62% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 99 122
10th Percentile £166 £178 £212
25th Percentile £283 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £431
Median % change year-on-year - -7.25% -15.44%
75th Percentile £596 £550 £518
90th Percentile £650 £623 £622
North West median daily rate £358 £400 £438
% change year-on-year -10.50% -8.57% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 18
10th Percentile £21.17 - £17.50
25th Percentile £21.46 - £18.10
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +98.28% +14.85% -8.18%
75th Percentile £63.50 - £64.69
90th Percentile £70.00 - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.18 £17.50
% change year-on-year +73.45% +38.17% -53.33%

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux job vacancy trend in Manchester

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Manchester

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Installations Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (16.67%) JAX-RS
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) VMware